The role of users' concepts of the robot in human-robot spatial instruction

Authors:
Kerstin Fischer
Affiliations:
University of Bremen, Sprach-und Literaturwissenschaften, Bremen
Venue:
SC'06 Proceedings of the 2006 international conference on Spatial Cognition V: reasoning, action, interaction
Year:
2006

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Abstract

Spatial instructions are always delivered for a particular communication partner. In this paper I investigate the the role of users' concepts of their communication partner in human-robot interaction by analysing the spatial language choices speakers make in three comparable corpora with three different robots. I show that the users' concepts of their artificial communication partner is only mildly shaped by the appearance of the robot, and thus that users do not mindlessly use all clues they can get about their communication partner in order to formulate their spatial instructions. Instead, spatial instruction in human-robot interaction also depends on the users' models of the communication situation, as well as on external variables, such as gender.